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Planes That Never Flew.

An account of world-beating aircraft projects that were scrapped before their time. Each aircraft is recreated and shown using computer graphics. Includes archive footage and interviews.

In the grip of a rapidly escalating Cold War America poured billions into developing a giant nuclear powered bomber, a plane so fantastic that it could stay aloft for months at a time. The Convair WS 125 was the ultimate doomsday machine...

Recently declassified Russian Cold War era documents disclose they actually flew a prototype Atomic engined bomber.

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  • At the time, I was a Kennedy fan. We used to laugh at Eisenhower. He was so old-fashioned. But today, the more I read about the history of the early Cold War, the smarter Eisenhower seems, and the dumber Kennedy seems.

  • that is a VERY GOOD dvd!

    not biased in any way!

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  • @JetMech72 Well, that'll teach me to watch the whole video before commenting. Disregard my previous post.

  • How come this documentary never points out that the M50 Nuclear powered plane was only a hoax by Aviation Week Magazine? The M50 was a real prototype bomber, but was never nuclear-powered.

  • @Axgoodofdunemaul Dumber? I don't know. Immature? Definitively, but...weren't we all the same at the time?

  • who can say what else did?

    not us.. we a re no-one.

    NOw.. we could make one easily

  • tjhe xb 70 flew

  • thumbs up if you watched the wholeseries in 2011

  • what an idiot??/ how can one say technology is too ambitious??? suppression of technology , how foul.

  • @Axgoodofdunemaul Kennedy wasn't dumb. He solved the Cuba-crisis without causing a nuclear war. And as a German I use to remind his famous Berlin-speech. And don't forget the candidate of the Republicans who wanted to "fire nukes out of his hip like a gunslinger"

  • No Soviet nuclear aircraft! Liar, liar, pants on fire!

  • @frackcha thanks alot!! cheers

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